Unwanted American export rampaging across Mexico border

May 23, 2014 |Photos by Bob Owen

Some 5 million feral hogs are found throughout the country and in almost every habitat, spreading as far north as Canada from their original territory in the South. It is estimated these hogs cause about $1.5 billion in damage and control costs each year. Read the full story at www.expressnews.com.

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Alejandro Gonzalez, above, an exotic animal control agent for the State of Chihuahua sets up a blind from where he can watch feral hogs enter a trap on a farm outside Ojinaga, MX. Wild hogs are destroying farmers crops just across the dried up Rio Grande. Since there is little to no farming across the river in Presidio County, it is believed the hogs are coming from the US in search of food. Tuesday, May 13, 2014.

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Alejandro Gonzalez, above, an exotic animal control agent for the State of Chihuahua sets up a blind from where he can watch feral hogs enter a trap on a farm outside Ojinaga, MX. Wild hogs are destroying farmers crops just across the dried up Rio Grande. Since there is little to no farming across the river in Presidio County, it is believed the hogs are coming from the US in search of food. Tuesday, May 13, 2014.